As always the training was excellent and meet my requirements to allow me to support the students in my role. My tutor was excellent and the feedback she gave me was really helpful and very insightful

Fantastic experience with loads of support.

A very challenging and intense course to complete in a relatively short timeframe. Tutorials were well structured and informative and my assessor was excellent, providing guidance and support as needed. For the sake of future students I would recommend revisiting the suggested word counts to give them a more realistic idea of the volume of work involved.

Good workshop structure and prompt and helpful feedback from assessors.

I joined the Register because I feel it is important for the schools and colleges I work with to know that I am a qualified guidance practitioner and can speak with authority on the subject of careers education and guidance with the backing of my professional body. Being on the Register provides evidence of my qualification level and expertise.

The register is there for prospective clients to research Career Development Professionals and make contact with them for their services – I get three or four clients per year through this route. In addition it is useful for us within the profession to find out more about likeminded experts within our geographical area and make contact with them for networking purposes.

I believe the Register is important as it helps potential clients/customers and employers, to recognise people who are fully qualified to deliver career guidance and coaching, and who are committed to keeping their CPD up to date and working in an ethical way.  There are many people who promote themselves as careers coaches or influencers, or who offer employability support, and it can be very hard for people to understand what is being offered.  The Register helps people to recognise those who are fully equipped to offer specialist careers support, and it helps to raise and maintain standards across the profession, by ensuring that we all make time for CPD and continuously improve our skills and knowledge.

I joined the register to demonstrate I'm a qualified professional. It's been useful to be able to tell organisations and clients that I'm on the register, to 'showcase' my professionalism and qualifications. Maintaining my registration through the CPD requirements is an invaluable aspect too, as it's been essential for some roles I've done to show I am up to date with my own CPD.

I joined the register when I first started working as a freelancer.  At the time, it was important to me to be able to provide evidence of my qualifications to potential clients.  I have grown to appreciate the fact that the register also ties you to a community of practitioners, keeps you accountable for keeping on top of CPD and to the code of ethics, has been a source of enquiries and gives a flavour of the wide range of careers professionals working in many different areas and fields.